I just started reading Inferno by Max Hastings. It's supposed to be the best, or one of the best, single volume accounts of World War II. I'm only 2% in, but so far it's well-written, compelling and fascinating.

Also I strongly recommend 1491 by Charles Mann. It is the utterly astonishing account of, as the title suggests, what the Americas were like pre-Columbus. And a great seasonal choice would be Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick which is the riveting account of the Puritans landing in Plymouth. It debunks a lot of the mythology surrounding those events.

Wow all these books sound really great. What I do is, for each recommendation, I search for the book on Amazon and read the synopsis. So far based on the summaries, they seem really interesting. I'm going to have a lot of books to read, thank you all for that

I recommend Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft, War is a Racket by Maj. Gen. Smedley D Butler (both available in the MR library), Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild, and When the World Outlawed War by David Swanson

I recommend Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft, War is a Racket by Maj. Gen. Smedley D Butler (both available in the MR library), Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild, and When the World Outlawed War by David Swanson

Thank you!
This is completely irrelevant to the thread topic. My first language is Arabic and I can't help but comment on your avatar, it looks really cool. I noticed the word (سلام) in your avatar (the green writing), which means peace in Arabic, did you know that? And what's the other language? The one on the top, I'm assuming it's Peace written in a language I don't recognize.